Paywalls offend me. The Internet exists to share knowledge with everyone across the world. You shouldn’t need a subscription, all you should need is an internet connection to access the world’s knowledge.
Tl;dr: Simply prepend “12ft.io” to the start of the URL for any article you want to read. Et voila!
They’re everywhere
And yet an increasing number of news sites are including a “paywall” of some type. At this point it’s pretty rare to find a professional news site without gatekeeping of some kind – even those bankrolled by billionaires (washingtonpost.com, theintercept.com).
They’re laughable
Some of them just pretent to block content, simply forcing you to click “not now” or similar to access the content (theguardian.com, independent.c
